To help promote the implementation of garbage separation in key cities, China Zero Waste Alliance, Friends of Nature, Wuhu Ecology Center, IPE, and volunteers from several environmental protection organizations have formed a garbage separation observation group to mobilize residents to take photos of the waste separation in their neighborhoods with the help of the Garbage Map on the Blue Map App, and form a series of observation reports on garbage separation work. In this report, the observation group focuses on the progress of garbage sorting in Beijing in the past three months, and makes policy recommendations.

In order to help civil organizations devoted to water source environmental protection become familiar with water source management policies and regulations, master basic survey methods and content, form more scientific and systematic survey data, and provide independent third-party survey results with reference value for water source management and research, Changsha Green Xiaoxiang Environmental Science Center (hereinafter referred to as Green Xiaoxiang) and IPE jointly developed the "Water Source Information Disclosure and Environmental Management Status Assessment Index System" and the accompanying operational guidelines based on national regulations, standards and policies related to water source protection, combined with many years of experience in drinking water source surveys and assessment standard development. During the development process, we have received a lot of support from research scholars, government officials, water supply industry practitioners and environmental NGO partners, and we would like to express our deepest gratitude. We look forward to working with our partner organizations to continuously optimize the assessment methodology, improve the quality of the assessment, expand the scale of the assessment, and promote the participation of multiple parties in the protection of drinking water sources to jointly safeguard our lifelines.

In the past three years, government departments at all levels have made great progress in water environment monitoring and water quality information disclosure, but there are still many shortcomings. To confirm the status of water quality information disclosure across the nation and further promote the disclosure of water environmental quality information, IPE developed WQTI based on the requirements of relevant regulations and the need to protect the public's right to know about the environment, and evaluated the status of water quality information disclosure in 2018-2019 for key cities of national environmental protection, forming 120 key cities of environmental protection, scoring and ranking them.

Based on 2018 national drinking water quality data, IPE developed the national drinking water source water quality map. The overall compliance rate of drinking water sources in the country is relatively high. The index found that the 14 cities with the worst water quality are all in the north; the monitoring results of more than 100 drinking water sources published since 2018 demonstrate pollution over the standard; and the toxicology indicators of 69 sources demonstrate pollution over the standard. In recent years, efforts to rectify environmental problems and protect these water sources have strengthened. However, it is necessary to safeguard against a pollution rebound at the same time as water source remediation.

In recent years, national water quality monitoring has significantly improved. More cities actively and regularly disclose water quality data, and the scope of disclosures has expanded: local departments now publish data not only from monitoring points managed by the national government, but also from those managed by provincial, municipal and county-level governments. The content of these disclosures has also increased in detail, from general descriptions of local water quality conditions to the full disclosure of comprehensive monitoring data. The Measures for the National Water Quality Monitoring Information Disclosure for Centralized Drinking Water Sources ensures that water quality information for centralized drinking water sources is published on track. The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution issued by several provinces and municipalities also discloses the status of groundwater quality.

China as a whole faces water scarcity and the World Bank has listed it as one of the 13 most water-scarce countries. However, water-scarce China also has number of water sources that have had their status revoked. According to incomplete statistics, there have been 162 delisted water source protection sites across the country. Thirsty China, why are drinking water sources being delisted? This report will help you find out more.

In April 2015, China's State Council published the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (the "Water Ten"), which served to integrate China's environmental water management actions. 2017 could be considered the first stage in the battle to control pollution in China's "foul and filthy" waters. Did this decisive year achieve a decisive victory? This report combines official reports with those made by environmental organizations and the public on the clean-up of hundreds of black and smelly rivers, and tries to sort out and analyze them.